How Wide Spread Are The Package Manager Problems?

[Easilyconfused]

My Vista is 32-bit, and have not noticed any problems with the Package Manager other than it being slow to load the list of installed packages.

Mine is also very slow to load but it gets there in the end. Perhaps there is something preventing Stephen's installation completing this lengthy compilation process.

My package manager takes a minute or two to actually give the list of installed stuff. I usually switch to a different window and do something else or flip channels on the TV etc.

[Retro]

I have to wait a while on my XP sp3 Machine for the stuff to appear when the Package Manager is used but it is almost instantaneous on the Vista Machine which has a much faster processor. Stephen's problem must have a solution or at least a reason for it to occur. It will just be a case of sticking at it and when a reason is found we will probably all wonder why we did not think of it before. This happened to me with Rail Simulator and an unrelated problem to Stephen's but it took an age to resolve and a lot of hard work and thought by everyone involved. Don't despair Stephen you obviously have support by the amount of interest in this particular Topic.
Kind regards James.

[stephenholmes]

Hello james
I will make do with the work around for the time being
Thanks once again
Kind regards Stephen

[merseyrail508124]

Interesting.. I had bonjour and itunes installed and pm worked fine, I remember uninstalling them because i didnt need them, but didnt run railworks for a while afterwards. Then my package manager stopped working

Could just be an update of software which railworks doesnt like..

Just a thought.

Luke

[partyspiritz]

Could not sleep I think that the problem is unlikely to be fixed I went out purchased a new laptop and right from the start the package manger did not work. No mater how many times we have said when the updates are applied it go’s wrong.

I think that the minority will be sacrificed for the majority



Regards




John

[Wikkus]

My package manager takes a minute or two to actually give the list of installed stuff. I usually switch to a different window and do something else or flip channels on the TV etc.

Ditto. Even with 4GB RAM on a 64-bit XP installation, the time required for the egg-timer to disappear and the list of content to show up is at least one minute. Once the list is loaded, provided I do not close the launcher application, I can jump in and out of game, adding and removing packages quite merrily with no issue. Also, in a similar vein, the first package I install in a session takes a looong time to return control, whereas subsequent installations are much quicker.

From my limited understanding of how package manager works, it has to read the list of installed content from a text file. Therefore, as the list gets bigger, the longer it takes to respond. Makes sense to me given that I've got circa 20GB of assets

Rgds, Rik.

[alanch]

From my limited understanding of how package manager works, it has to read the list of installed content from a text file. Therefore, as the list gets bigger, the longer it takes to respond. Makes sense to me given that I've got circa 20GB of assets

Rgds, Rik.

From what I can see, the Package Manager doesn't read from just one text file, but from one for each installed asset. Have a look in the Steam\Steamapps\Common\Railworks\PackageInfo folder - mine has 981 .pi files at the moment. I can't think of a more inefficient way of doing this - why doesn't it keep an indexed database file listing the files installed by packages?